Julian's quantum leap

[Vagabond]

A week or so ago Julian put a most interesting thread on the carp forum.

 

If you could fish at any point in time, when would it be ?

 

Some wanted to go back and fish with Dick Walker, some to go even further back and fish with Izaak Walton.

 

Me ?

 

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However, I would prefer to take a REAL quantum leap, and go back to the Late Cretaceous Era (thats 95 to 65 million years ago)

 

I would fish with BIG livebaits (say a 20 lb shark), seeking a Xiphactinus - a big toothy predator up to twenty feet long.

END QUOTE

 

I asked for sponsors, and for companions.....

 

Oh ye of little faith - just leaving now - hope to be back soon, or even yesterday.

 

Watch this space

 

Here - four hour fight - released at boatside, got a picture...

 

 

Xiphactinus - probable world record.

 

BTW The picture is of a painting by Ivy Rutzky, one of many in "Discovering Fossil Fishes" by John G Maisey, published by Henry Holt and Company Inc, of New York.

 

For anyone interested in fossil fishes, this book is a must - or perhaps as a present for the angler who has everything.

Edited January 31, 2006 by Vagabond

[Elton]

There are those of us that thought you had fished in that period

[Vagabond]

Well yes Elton, but I was only a kid then, and could only catch tiddlers.

 

Here is a Dastilbe elongatus - The Aptian Minnow (not actually a cyprinid - more closely related to the present-day milkfish)

 

but armed with the intellectual resouces of AN, well.....its well worth going back

Edited January 31, 2006 by Vagabond

[shortstuff]

not sure i would like to go back quite that far as you would have to keep lookin over your shoulder for any hungry t-rex's lol

[Vagabond]

not sure i would like to go back quite that far as you would have to keep lookin over your shoulder for any hungry t-rex's lol

 

T-rex were land-based - hence I was afloat, but there were plenty of other angler-noshers about - look at that pterosaur up there in the right-hand top corner - had to fend it off with a trident whilst playing the fish.

 

No worse than fishing amongst saltwater crocs though (and I really HAVE done that)

Edited January 30, 2006 by Vagabond

[Newt]

No worse than fishing amongst saltwater crocs though (and I really HAVE done that)

 

So there is substance to the rumor that you are an ancestor of Steve Irwin?

[argyll]

Well yes Elton, but I was only a kid then, and could only catch tiddlers.

 

Here is a Dastilbe elongatus - The Aptian Minnow

 

but armed with the intellectual resouces of AN, well.....its well worth going back

 

Call that a fish Dave. Why I've seen mesolithic lake herrings bigger than that. Heres one

 

 

Coregonus Artedii

Edited January 30, 2006 by argyll

[Vagabond]

 

Priceless Gerry. Of course you are younger than me, and didn't start your fishing until Quaternary times, after the fixed spool reel had been invented. We real oldtimers.......

 

Nicely displayed coregonid that - have you any others?

 

BTW Took Will pikefishing last Saturday - he with big sardines, me with baitcaster and plugs. We both blanked!

Edited January 31, 2006 by Vagabond

[argyll]

 

Priceless Gerry. Of course you are younger than me, and didn't start your fishing until Quaternary times, after the fixed spool reel had been invented. We real oldtimers.......

 

Nicely displayed coregonid that - have you any others?

 

BTW Took Will pikefishing last Saturday - he with big sardines, me with baitcaster and plugs. We both blanked!

 

I have two others in the loft somewhere, will try to dig them out. One is a Wyoming herring and the other is its saltwater cousin from a shop in Lyme Regis..might be a local fossil but that's just a guess.

[DavyR]

 

Changing the subject a bit - is that a Grice & Young 'pin? It has the same swirly-blue coloured handles as my circa 1970 Jecta Century!